Holy Shit by Gene Logsdon

Holy Shit by Gene Logsdon is a book promoting the use of toxic sewage sludge to grow food and other crops. It is being published by Chelsea Green in 2010. Gene Logsdon is an author and farmer who has long been a promoter and defender of growing food in toxic sewage sludge, or biosolids, the preferred term of the sewage sludge industry.

Logsdon's boosterism for growing food in sewage sludge is described on page 121 of is the book Toxic Sludge Is Good For You written by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton in 1995. The authors write:  "As horror stories like these [about sludge poisonings of people and animals] have begun to leak out, advocates of sludge farming are responding.  'There is no doubt, among sludge scientists in general, that their long and arduous efforts to convince society of the safety of sludge have been set back a few years,' wrote Gene Logsdon in BioCycle magazine.  'One good effect ... is that it should become easier ... to get funds to mount education programs.'  Logsdon advocated 'funding a road show' starring scientist-advocates like Terry Logan 'and a star-studded supporting cast of waste-water treatment plant operators.  Put another way, this is a job for a creative advertising agency.  If the nuclear industry can convince the public that nuclear energy means clear air,  then improving the image of sludge would be, pardon the pun, a piece of cake.'

As Logsdon tours with his new book in 2010, he will effectively be conducting his own pro-sludge "road show," promoting the practice he has long advocated. (It is unknown to what degree Logsdon grows his own food in sewage sludge.)

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